"The Giant’s House" by Elizabeth McCracken

The year is 1950. Peggy Cort, a librarian in a small Cape Cod town, is 26 and has begun to fear that she will live her life without ever experiencing love's transforming power. Until she meets James, 11 years old, six foot four, and still growing. Quietly heroic about his predicament, James checks out books on conjuring and gigantism, and they soon find their lives entwined in ways that neither of them could have predicted. In James, Peggy discovers the one person suited to encompass her love, and as he grows --- six foot five at age 12, then seven feet, then eight --- so does her heart and their most singular romance.
This stunning first novel was a finalist for a National Book Award in Fiction in 1996.

All Over the Page book group alternates their meeting locations between Village Inn (200 N. 36th St.) and Panera Bread (3720 Broadway) at 7:00 PM on the second Tuesday of each month. Titles are chosen 3 to 6 months in advance, and are taken from suggestions by attendees. Anyone interested in the book groups is welcome to attend.